This report reveals that while teacher salaries are a critical tool for recruiting qualified and diverse educators, few states pay teachers more for working in hard-to-staff schools or subjects, incorporate performance-based pay, or reward relevant prior work experience.
We are failing to give children daily opportunities to engage with a broad spectrum of people and their identities, perspectives, and experiences; and some children see no reflection of themselves in their teachers.
Some suggest that teachers are “lured” out of the profession into more lucrative fields. But a new study of pre-pandemic data paints a more complex picture of who leaves the classroom and how much they earn afterward.
District incentives to recruit and retain teachers will likely fall short if they lack specific attention to the needs of hard-to-staff subjects and schools. In this District Trendline, we examine how large U.S. districts pay teachers differently based on district needs to fill these critical gaps.
We explore the research behind five key factors of effective high-impact tutoring programs.
Here’s what we learned about what’s going well and what’s been challenging in building a strong clinical practice experience, as well as which policies and supports could lead to better experiences.
The skyrocketing price of health insurance impacts both teachers and school districts. Here’s how some education leaders are keeping health insurance affordable for teachers.
Districts nationally are struggling to build strong pools of substitute teachers. Yet in 40% of the large districts we analyzed, entry-level substitute teachers are paid less than what they would earn hourly if they worked in retail.
A new study examines a program in Dallas—Accelerating Campus Excellence or ACE—that sought to boost teacher pay for stellar educators willing to teach in high-poverty schools. Compared to similar schools where they didn’t attract high-performing teachers with higher pay, the ACE schools produced dramatic results for students. But those results didn’t last.
Offering paid family leave is an important way to improve quality of life for educators.
Temporary gains accompanied by longer-term challenges.
We examine if and how 148 large U.S. school districts use strategic pay to recruit and retain teachers.
We must join together to ensure that our nation keeps children and teachers safe.
While most states have made progress in building out their data systems, key data connections are missing.
Our nation’s educators and students are exhausted and embattled, but not beaten.
For school districts looking to fulfill staffing needs, hosting student teachers offers many advantages to creating a pool of effective new teachers.
To attract teachers to rural areas we either have to come up with a significant and steady infusion of cash—or life in rural America needs to become a more attractive proposition.
For school district leaders, a crucial strategy for hiring a strong, effective teacher workforce is to offer competitive salaries.
